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Valley Of The Dinosaurs: The Complete Series

…competing with one of their own shows, with Devlin being run at the same time on ABC. Meanwhile, H-B’s prehistoric live action show Korg, 70,000 BC failed to click with…

Gnomeo & Juliet’s director Kelly Asbury Opens His Secret Garden!

…and the Beast and The Little Mermaid. How has the industry changed over the past 20 years? Kelly Asbury: I began in the animation business in 1983 and have been…

More theatrical Looney Tunes shorts greenlit by Warner Bros.

…future. Unlike the last three cartoons, though, which only featured Wile E. Coyote and his nemesis the Road Runner, the new shorts will feature other characters from the Tunes cast….

Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos

Ruby-Spears (September 15-19, 1986), Warner Archive (April 1, 2011), 1 disc, 110 mins, 4:3 ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0, Not Rated , Retail: $14.95 Storyboard: Chuck Norris and his Karate Kommandos…

Eddie Murphy to Voice Hong Kong Phooey

It’s a new Hollywood trend to revive old cartoons by turning them into movies. The cycle continues with Alcon Entertainment and their live-action/animated combo Hong Kong Phooey, the 1970s Hanna-Barbera…

The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D

Touchstone/Walt Disney Pictures (October 29 1993), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (August 30 2011), 3 disc set comprising Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray HD and DVD/Digital Copy disc, 76 mins plus supplements, 1080p…

Updates on DC Nation with News on Beware the Batman

…Beware the Batman. It’s drastically different from other Batman cartoons: Robin is replaced by a girl ninja and Alfred is younger and totes a gun. DC Nation is contracted to…

Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)

…the character animators), and a further two Disney cartoons: The China Shop and Music Land, as well as an excerpt from Alice In Wonderland, all here employed to describe how…

Winnie The Pooh

…feel. Pooh has actually returned to the big screen before, most notably with The Tigger Movie (2000), which did a fair job of trying to nail the looser Xerox look…

The Art Of Pixar – The Complete Color Scripts And Select Art From 25 Years Of Animation: an Interview with author Amid Amidi

…(2009), and Animation Block Party (2010). Additionally, he has worked in the animation industry in a number of capacities, and consulted for various media/entertainment companies. We spoke to Amid about…

Arthur Christmas supervising animator Seamus Malone: from Bristol to the North Pole!

…every animator individually so that’s where I came in. Sometimes I would have 10 or even 20 animators to check in with so the day went very fast! AV: Did…

DC Nation Starts Saving TV Waves March 3

…My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic).” Cartoon Network hasn’t had an interactive block like this since the early 2000s with Toonami and Miguzi. Be prepared for fun and great cartoons!…

Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax: Deluxe Edition

…The Trees (10:50) is a featurette with Susan Brandt, the president of Dr. Seuss Enterprises, who discusses how Dr. Seuss encouraged kids to think about our responsibility to the environment….

Bubble Guppies-Bubble Puppy’s Fin-tastic Fairy Tale

As a cartoon fanatic, I love all cartoons, even ones intended for children (Bronies, I am right there with you.) Sometimes the ones geared towards very young children can gnaw…

Butch Hartman’s Premiere of YooToon Studios

…a chance to display their talents. The premiere episode aired with three short cartoons and Hartman critiques each one. Professional feedback and entertainment! The age of the Internet is awesome!…

DC Nation-Week 6

…guy is taken down, a new evil waits around the corner for the second season. Young Justice matches the excitement and adventure of prior DC cartoons, while adding a serious…

Margaret Kerry – The Original Tinker Bell

…well. I know that when he was in the Ziegfeld Follies he earned $10,000/week. AV: That’s still a lot by today’s standards and went further back then. MK: He’s the…

Gold Nugget, Common Sense, Two-Headed Cop, and Junkyard

…Brian Ormiston have been wanting to get Two-Headed Cop off the ground ever since they conceived of it almost 20 years ago. Now they’ve taken matters into their own hands…

DreamWorks Wants Classic Media

…to acquire the company to bolster its less than successful stock this quarter. Classic Media already owns franchises that have built-in fans, ready made cartoons, and potential for new movies….

Ben Affleck May Direct Justice League Movie

…Aquaman, and Flash. Warner Brothers has been very successful with its string of DC animated cartoons, but when it comes to live action superhero movies their record is far from…

The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection

…AristoCats and Disneynature’s Chimpanzee), one of the two stickers on the slipcover offers $10 off the title when purchased with another concurrent release, which is good up to September 30…

The Heathcliff And Dingbat Show

Ruby-Spears (1980), Warner Archive (August 14, 2012), 2 discs, 312 mins, 4:3 ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0, Not Rated, Retail: $24.95 Storyboard: The sassy comic strip feline evades police and torments…

Down Under with Rescuers composer Bruce Broughton

We all remember the majesty and lyricism of Cody’s flight with Marahute: released in 1990, The Rescuers Down Under was the first sequel in the Disney Studio’s history and the…

Cinderella: Diamond Edition

…part towards assisting Walt’s television and theme park expansion. As the Studio announced in its marketing, 1950 proved to be “our Cinderella year” and, some 60-plus years later, it’s still…

Fyodor Khitruk Passes Away

…A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh. The three Vinni Pih cartoons were made from 1969 to 1972. Khitruk also adapted Pinnocchio for Russian audiences in 1960 as Priklyucheniya Buratino. Other major…

Frankenweenie

…through many of Max and Dave Fleischer’s strange excursions into the surreal in their Betty Boop cartoons, to George Pal’s Puppetoon series in the 1930s, which often featured a terrified…

Pixar artist and Facebook try to reinvent the smiley

…independently says, “If we can crack a universal language, that will be true success. What we need to aim at is instant readability, just like what we do in cartoons”….

Jerry Beck leaves Cartoon Brew

…and continuing my efforts to get classic cartoons out of the vaults and onto your personal screens (on whatever device you prefer). I’m also committed to several new book projects,…

Escape From Planet Earth

…always have to be the bad guys in kids cartoons these days? And strangest of all, the moral message of this film seemed to be turned on its head. I…

Animation Addicts Podcast #33: The Adventures of Tintin – Relax, I Interviewed A Pilot Once

…3 and the Disney Shareholder meeting. • History of The Adventures of Tintin and the Author/creator Hergé (excuse our pronunciation). • Find the cartoons on Netflix! • Main Discussion: The…